Dumping-vehicle



(Nb Model.)

T. HILL. DUMPING VEHICLE.

{Application filed Feb. 28, 1898.)

Patented lan. I7, |899t /N VEA/TOR THOMAS HILL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

compuso-VEHICLE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,007, dated January' 17, 1899.

Application filed February 26,1898. Serial No. 671,786. (No model.)

to MZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS HILL, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and Stal of New Jersey, have invented a new and lmproved Dumping-Vehicle, of which the following'is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in dumping-vehicles or in vehicles having a ful erumed body; and the object is to provide such a Vehicle in which the link connections usually employed are dispensed with, thus simplifying and materially reducing the cost of construction.

I will describe a dumping-Vehicle embodying my invention, and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indi.- cate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation and partial sec-v tion showing a four-wheeled vehicle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a fulcrum-boxing employed. Fig. 4 is a side elevation and partial section of a cart or two-Wheeled vehicle having my invention applied thereto, and Fig. 5 shows a modification.

Referring first to the example of my improvement shown in Fig. 1, 1 designates the body of a wagon normally supported on the side sills 2 and having a fnlcru x11-point rearward of the support. IThe fulcrum of the body comprises trnnnions 5, extended laten ally from the body into guide-loops 4, extended upward from blocks 5, formed at the rear end of metal boxes U, ,attached to the rear ends of the sills 2. The upper rear ends of the boxes 6 are curved downward, as at 7, and the topsof the sills are correspondingly curved, thus providing a bed on which the body may move while dumping. Each boxing l) has at the lower end oi' its curved portion and in line with the guides i a trans .Verse channel 8.

in Fig. 4 and which represents a two-wheeled 6o cart the boxings l2 are somewhat similar to the boxings first described, but they are' secured directly to the-cart-shafts 13. 'The upper sides at the rear end are curved, and rearward of these curved `bearings are vthe fnlerom-bearings for the trunnions 14, extended' from the slanting body portion of the body 15. The trunnions 14 project into guides 16, somewhat similar to the guides 4, but in this instance do not serve to secure the boxings to 7o the axle.

In Fig. 5 l. have shown a boxing 17 as straighten its upper side and a guide 18 at the end thereof, which is inclined slightly.4

forward. .The rounded portion 1S) of the body 75 may move on said straight upper sides of the boxings to engage the trunnions 20 in the fuleriim-beai'ings`21.

It will be observed in my improvement that I employ no special primary bearing for the 8o dumping-body, as has been previously donethat is, in my construction the body does not work from one special bearing to another and rest on both at the same time untila second action in tilting is-madevin order to dump the load. The body in changing its fulcrum on the smooth curved surfaces causes the weight to increase rearward, ,so that its descent is continuous until the lead is dumped. Therefore there is but one dumping action. other words, tllere'is no sliding motion of the Ybody, as in patents granted to me and numbered,respectively, 561,389, June 3, 1896, and

583,373, May E?, 1897. 'lhis is due to the fact that the guides are extended at an upward 95' angle relatively to the metal boxes.

llavng thus described my invention, l claim as new, and-desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a dumping-vehicle, a support curved roo downward and rearward on the upper side, guides at the ends of the support and extended at an upward angle relatively thereto, a dumping-body, and trunnions extended To receive any lateral thrusts of 55 In 9o from the body into the guides, substantially as specified.

2. In a dumping-vehicle, the combination with a body and the `running-gear frame, of

metal boxings on said frame, thesaid boxings being curved downward and rearward at the upper side, laterally-extended blocks at the ends of the eurved portions and having fulf 'crum-bearings'in the upper side, guides extended at. an upward angle relatively to the' blocks, and trunnions extended from the' body into the guides;` substantially as specified. 3. In a dumping-vehicle, the combination with a body and the sills `or shafts, of metal boxings secured .-to the sills or shafts and curved downward on the top, a fulorupl-bearing being formed at the rear end of the oni-ved '-portion, rigid guides extended at an'upward angle relatively to the boxings. in line with the fulcrum-bearings,.and.trunnions extended from the body'into/said guides and adapted to engage in the fulorum-bearings, substantially as specified.

4; For use ina dumping-vehicle', a metal boxing having upwardly-turned sides curved downward on the top, at the rear end, the outer side being provided with an extension to receive side thrusts of a'vehicle-body, a block extended laterally from the rear end of the boxing and having a fuloruni-.Jbearing in the u'pper side; and a guide' extended at an upward angle relatively to 'the block, substantially as specified.

5. Iii-.a dumpingvehio1e,j a frame having downwardly-curved rear ends, a body mounted to move'on said curvedends, trunnions on y the body, and guidesinto which the trunnions extend, the said guides being at the er treme dumping-point and at an upward angle relatively to the curved ends, for the pur-` pose of regulating the' dumping of the'body, substantially as specied. I

6. In a dumping-vehicleythe eoinbinati'on JNO. M. RITTER, C. R. FERGUSON. 

